Breakfast room ... with make-them-yourself waffles!
On the road:
In Grand Junction we stopped for lunch at a Thai restaurant. Mere moments after we sat down, a massive hail storm hit! It only lasted several minutes but it coated everything in white.
The downpour ... hailstones
Making a run for her car
My exceedingly spicy meal
Leaving the restaurant after lunch, hail was still piled high.
More rain and difficult driving weather
(right) Not sure I've ever seen a Road Heave Area sign before!
Glenwood Canyon
The Colorado River was going wild from all the torrential rain. ... Approaching the Rocky Mountains
Dillon Reservoir ... Eisenhower-Johnson tunnels
Loveland ski area ... Wow! Expensive!
Sandstone forms the Leyden Ridge hogback (basically a long narrow ridge with one steep side) ... Snd some ruins of an old mining operation
The town and ridge were named for pioneer miner brothers Michael, Martin and John Leyden who came looking for gold in 1865. Instead they started a coal mine, delivering their goods by oxen to Golden and Denver. In 1866, Michael was murdered near the mine site and in 1870 Martin died of methan gas in the mine.
